The Government has proposed cutting $10 million in funding for climate change research in a move described as disheartening for New Zealand's highly capable climate scientists.

Herein lies the opportunity for NZ, writes Frank Duffield. Its resource base is largely underexplored, and world-scale natural gas discoveries are quite possible.

They love wars, those Republicans. Wars on Freedom. Wars on Jobs. Wars on Wars: everything's a war.

Climate change could be putting the planet on a path to an era not seen for 3 million years, a New Zealand scientist has warned.

Hurricanes, referred to as "acts of God" by insurers and seen by others as harbingers of the effects of climate change, are becoming more common, research indicates.

The closest most of us will get to Antarctica is nature documentaries like Frozen Planet - but the white continent's relevance to us and our future is far greater than we think.

A climate change campaigner says he is hopeful that the world can avert a catastrophic global warming scenario.

The priorities are clearly badly wrong, writes Bryan Walker. NZ needs to turn its back on a prosperity resulting in severe threats to the human future and build an economy which flourishes on green energy sources.

Several aspects of Jim Salinger's op-ed "Climate hurtling towards a hothouse Earth" (Herald 24/5/13) are quite misleading.

New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.

Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.

After reading this hopefully you'll be convinced the production and use of disposable coffee cups is an irresponsible act that is harming our environment, writes James Murray.

A warming planet could double the amount of good grape growing land in New Zealand over the next 40 years, a new study shows.

From his office in the alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, meteorologist Gilles Brunot is looking out at snow-capped peaks washed with spring sunshine, resplendent under a pale blue sky.

NZ's top climate change scientists have rallied together to slam a visiting sceptic who is touring the country to proclaim global warming as a myth that should be ignored.

Goodbye frosts, hello droughts and bush fires.

Some time next year, what could be the world's largest research project will be presented to the United Nations' Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.

That wonderful quote in our English history should be changed in New Zealand to: 'Water, water everywhere and not a drop is saved!'

We're known for being clean and green, but Kiwis are still eating up at least twice their fair share of the planet when it comes to sustainability.

The drought is a timely reminder of how much the New Zealand economy depends on rainfall, writes Brian Fallow.

Wayne Smith says he is making a "moral stand" on climate change in joining 100 celebrated Kiwis in a major call to address New Zealand's most critical risks.

The world is now warmer than at almost any time since the end of the last Ice Age and, on present trends, will continue to reach a record high for the entire period since the dawn of civilisation, a study has found.